Waste Biorefineries

Waste Biorefineries: Advanced Design Concepts for Integrated Waste to Energy Processes presents a detailed guide to the design of energy-efficient and cost-effective waste-integrated biorefineries. Integrating thermochemical processing of waste with existing waste-to-energy technologies, the book includes the latest developments and technologies. It introduces current waste valorization techniques and examines reasons to modify existing waste-to-energy systems through the integration of new processes. In addition, the book explains the design of novel biorefineries and methods to assess these processes alongside detailed results, including the integration of waste-based CHP plants with waste gasification and the integration of pyrolysis technologies and biogas plants with waste thermochemical processing. Other sections discuss the issues and challenges of commercializing waste-to-energy technologies, including uncertainty in waste thermochemical process designs, the environmental impact of waste-integrated biorefineries, and the role of integrated waste-to-energy management in smart cities and urban energy systems. This book will be an invaluable reference for students, researchers and those in industry who are interested in the design and implementation of waste-to-energy systems, waste biomass-based combined heat and power plants, biogas plants and forest-based industries.

Dr. Prof. Jinyue Yan, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology and Mälardalen University, Sweden and now Chair Professor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof. Yan is the EiC of Elsevier's journal Advances in Applied Energy and CellPress's journal Nexus. He has served as the editorial board members for many prestigious journals such as Energy, Energy Conversion and Management, Journal of Energy Storage and etc. Prof. Yan has published more than 400 journal in the field of thermal energy utilization, renewable energy systems and CO2 mitigation.

Part I: Introduction 1. Municipal waste management overview 2. Waste-to-Energy (WtE) 3. From standalone WtE processes to waste-integrated biorefineries Part II: System configurations of the studied waste integrated biorefineries 4. From cogeneration to polygeneration: conversion of waste CHP plants to biorefineries 5. Conversion of existing biogas plants to waste integrated biorefineries 6. Thermodynamics and performance evaluation of waste biorefineries systems 7. Market and Feasibility Analysis of waste integrated biorefineries Part III: Issues and challenges in commercialization of waste-to-energy technologies 8. Uncertainty in waste thermochemical process designs 9. Environmental impact of Waste-integrated biorefineries 10. Role of integrated waste-to-energy management in Smart cities and urban energy systems